On 2020-12-06, Arve Barsnes <arve.bars...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 21:25, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > emerge -cpv python:3.7 will show you what is keeping 3.7 >> >> Something's wrong. >> >> That lists 43 packages. I checked the first few, and none of them require >> python 3.7. > > If you have not completed the world update yet, all those are probably > still installed as 3.7 packages. You could try updating all those to > 3.8 only first, if you have not done the world update yet.
I can't update world. After adding python3_7 to a bunch of setuptools stuff, it now refuses to update because conflicting vesions of something are required resulting in a slot conflict. I think it's both setuptools and certifi that have required version conflicts, but I can't figure out how to determine what's requiring the older versions of those two. At the end of the emerge output is says: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: and then there's ~150 lines of stuff in which indentation and color appears to be significant... -- Grant
